White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Thinned satellite data (PSAT and SPOT), All pseudo-absence/background points, Cropped to 750 m isobath, all covariates (u and v become vel_mag), evaluated using all metrics

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	boyce_cont	roc_auc	tss_max	brier_class
rf	0.9571275	0.9201743	0.9952319	0.9681599	NA
bt	0.7631297	0.9328814	0.8282935	0.5094714	NA
maxnet	0.6420150	0.9727224	0.7918354	0.4571286	NA
gam	0.7749196	0.9858820	0.8041147	0.4658170	0.1506857
glm	0.7256163	0.7142657	0.7215034	0.4220921	0.1743909

Variable Importance